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Moshe Harif

Moshe Harif was an Israeli kibbutz movement activist, architect and Alignment member of the Knesset from 1981 until his death in 1982.

1933 to 1982Leadership in the kibbutz movementFounding the United Kibbutz MovementAlignment Knesset member

Born: 2 June 1933, Sosnowiec
Died: 16 January 1982, Israel
Occupation: politician, architect
Party: Alignment
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Education House

Moshe Harif was born in 1933 in Sosnowiec

Moshe "Moussa" Harif was born in 1933 in Sosnowiec, Poland, to a Jewish family. He moved to Mandatory Palestine the next year. He went to the Beit Hinuch high school in Jerusalem.

In 1952 he settled at Kibbutz Tzora, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the Meuhedet movement he coordinated the Jerusalem area from 1953 to 1955 and served as secretary from 1958 to 1959. From 1963 to 1968 he studied architecture at the Technion and won the Braverman Prize for creative architecture.

From 1968 to 1974 he worked in the planning department of Kibbutz HaMeuhad. In 1976 he was elected secretary of Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim. He helped lead its merger with Kibbutz HaMeuhad into the United Kibbutz Movement.

In 1981 he was elected to the tenth Knesset for the Alignment and sat on the Finance Committee. In January 1982 he was killed in a road accident at Kabri junction, together with his wife Moria and his son Hagai. Edna Solodar took his seat, and Kibbutz Neve Harif is named after him.